Passage
Romans 11
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Glossary Term
Apostle
Established Assamese Christian term for an authorized, sent messenger.
ROM.11.13
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Doctrine
Apostleship
Risk: reducing apostleship to a generic Satradhikar (guru-successor) or spiritual-teacher role within the Ekasarana institutional structure.
ROM.11.13
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Doctrine
Effectual Calling
God's sovereign call that ensures the salvation of the called, not karma-determined destiny or impersonal fate.
ROM.11.29
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Glossary Term
Election
God's sovereign personal choice, not fate (ভাগ্য/কপাল) or karma-determined destiny.
ROM.11.29
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Glossary Term
Gentiles
Non-Jews; established Bible Society term.
ROM.11.17-24
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Doctrine
Grace
Unmerited favor directly contradicts both a karma-merit worldview and the boon-for-devotion transaction (বৰ) common in Puranic narrative.
ROM.11.5-6
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Glossary Term
Grace
Unmerited favor apart from human merit.
ROM.11.5-6
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Glossary Term
Israel
Proper name; established Bible Society form.
ROM.11.17-24
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Glossary Term
Justification
Compound phrase required; no single Assamese word carries the forensic 'declared righteous' sense.
ROM.11.11
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Doctrine
Providence
God's personal, purposive care, not impersonal karma-law or fate.
ROM.11.33-36
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Glossary Term
Providence
God's personal, purposive governance.
ROM.11.33-36
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Glossary Term
Righteousness
CRITICAL: Never ধৰ্ম -- in Assamese as in Hindi/Bengali this denotes cosmic/social duty (and in the Ekasarana context, the specific religious order founded by Sankardev).
ROM.11.11
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Doctrine
Salvation
CRITICAL: Never মুক্তি or মোক্ষ.
ROM.11.11
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Glossary Term
Salvation
CRITICAL: NEVER মুক্তি or মোক্ষ -- both denote liberation from the cycle of rebirth (সংসাৰ), the goal shared across Assamese Vaishnavite, Shaivite, and Shakta practice.
ROM.11.11
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Doctrine
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Directly challenges caste and ethnic spiritual hierarchy still present in Assamese Hindu social structure.
ROM.11.17-24